The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 85
The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this Ogre was, and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying, he could not pass so near his castle, without having the honour of paying his respects to him.
Who acts: Cat, Ogre, honour · What happens: take, inform, be, do, ask, speak · To what, where: care, Cat, castle, honour, respects, Ogre · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, Ogre, honour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 inform | mark |
| 9 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 inform | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 was | nsubj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Ogre | det |
| 13 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 inform | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inform | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cat | punct |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 speak | mark |
| 24 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 speak | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 asked | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pass | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pass | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pass | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 pass | advmod |
| 33 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 pass | advmod |
| 35 | near | near | ADP | _ | 37 castle | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 castle | nmod:poss |
| 37 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pass | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 having | punct |
| 39 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 40 having | mark |
| 40 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 pass | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 honour | det |
| 42 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 having | obj |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 paying | mark |
| 44 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 honour | acl |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 respects | nmod:poss |
| 46 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 paying | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 paying | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | the Cat | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | Cat | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | could | Ogre | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the Cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | with Ogre | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Cat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | not pass | could | Ogre | Ogre's castle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near castle=Location | ||||
| 9 | have | gerund | Ogre not said here | the honour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Patient | ||||
| 10 | pay | gerund | the honour not said here | Ogre's respects | Ogre | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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